Aleksi Briclot
www.aneyeoni.com
As a Concept Artist and Art Director in the videogame industry for 9 years, Aleksi was lead artist on ColdFear, the horror-action game developed by DarkWorks for Ubisoft, Splinter Cell Double Agent, and more recently on the big upcoming title Haze (still Ubisoft) and Dungeon Runners (NCsoft). He also contributed on the Heroes of Might & Magic 4 's trailer and the Prince of Persia 3 2005 E3 's booth banner. Also an illustrator, he has drawn hundreds of pieces for RPG books, magazines, and comics. He did covers for Mage, Vampire , C.O.P.S RPGs, Tolkien, J.V.Jones, Bradley books, Horroclix (Wizkids) packagings, Privateer Press, World of Warcraft gaming cards, as well as being one of the main card and packaging artists for Wizard of the Coast (Magic : The Gathering, Dreamblade). As for comic books, his early works were the comics adaptation of the videogame Alone in the Dark 4, then Spawn: Simony the graphic novel for Todd McFarlane Productions, the best selling trade paper back in the US for May 2004. He’s also a cover artist for Marvel on the Annihilation :Conquest saga and for Hellgate, another Dark Horse limited comic book series. Aleksi continues to illustrate Merlin, an ambitious 130 pages artbook about the legendary wizard and new Spawn graphic novel called “Architects of Fear”.
Aleksi is 29 years old and is living and working in Paris.
Rob Carney
www.imaginefx.com
Rob Carney is Editor of ImagineFX magazine – an international magazine for fantasy, sci-fi and concept artists, with nearly 16000 readers every month. Rob is dedicated to showcasing both new and established artists to a global audience, as well as teaching aspiring artists new skills through workshops, Q&As and one-to-one tuition in the magazine.
Dan Dos Santos
www.dandossantos.com
Dan currently resides in the small town of Beacon Falls, Connecticut. He is happily married and is the proud parent of a baby boy. Dan has worked for such clients as GE Engines/Boeing Aircraft, Saatchi & Saatchi, Scholastic Books, Ace Books,The Greenwich Workshop, Penguin Books, Random House, Bantam Books, Tor books, UpperDeck, and Wizards of the Coast. Aside from freelance illustration, Dan also co-hosts a series of instructional demonstrations called 'Art Out Loud'.
Dan has been the recipient of many awards. Most recently, he has received the 2007 Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist, and was the Chesley Award winner for Best Paperback Cover of 2007. His illustrations have graced the #1 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Jon Foster
www.jonfoster.com
Jon has lived in Providence for nearly two decades now and finds it hard to imagine living anywhere else. Well, that’s not exactly true. He would love to move to New Zealand or perhaps live in Paris near to the Louvre. But for now, he is quite happy being in this town, near to Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned my BFA.
Jon works in his home studio alongside his wife, two dogs and cat. They all live together and do our respective jobs quite peaceably, the only issue being the abundance of cast-off fur that finds its way into paintings, food and my eyebrows. Jon credits his wife as his muse and the pets are his comfort (although they trade these positions with ease) and cannot easily imagine his life without them.
Irene Gallo
igallo.blogspot.com
Irene has been the Art Director for Tor/Forge books since 1994 and Starscape books since it's launch in 2001. By far the most exciting part of her job is working with all the wonderful artists and becoming good friends with many of them. She is on the board of Directors of the Society of Illustrators. In 2005 I helped Arnie and Cathy Fenner curate and organize an exhibition at the Museum of American Illustration of the first 11 years of Spectrum. Since then she has joined them on their advisory board. She and artist Dan Dos Santos run a regular painting demo series Art Out Loud and annual charity auction of miniature sf/f paintings called MicroVisions.
Gregory Manchess
www.manchess.com
A native of Kentucky, he spent two years as a studio illustrator with Hellman Design Associates before striking out on his own in 1979.
He combined his love for fine art and science fiction and began his freelance career painting for OMNI magazine. His versatility and broad range of interests allowed him to crossover to mainstream illustration. His client work includes covers for Time, Atlantic Monthly, spreads for Playboy, Omni, Newsweek, and Smithsonian, and numerous book covers.
Manchess has also worked for the National Geographic Society on many occasions, including an expedition to the Fond du Lac river in Canada for the 1996 article David Thomson: The Man Who Measured Canada.
Widely awarded within the industry, Manchess exhibits frequently at the Society of Illustrators in New York. His peers at the Society honored him with the coveted Hamilton King Award in 1999, and the Stephan Dohanos Award in 2000.
Gregory is included in Walt Reed’s latest edition of “The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000.” He has just completed a children’s book about wild mustangs and a lavishly illustrated book of Robt. E. Howard Conan stories with over 60 paintings, both due out in 2007. He has currently finished 10 murals on the Pirate ship, Whydah, for the Nat’l Geographic Society. It will travel to15 cities beginning June of 2007.
He lectures frequently at universities and colleges nationwide and gives workshops in painting at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.
J.S. Rossbach
livingrope.free.fr
J.S Rossbach is a Concept artist and an illustrator specializing in Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Gothic Horror... his work can be seen mostly on book covers, RPGs and card games. From 2000 to 2003 he was a lead designer at Rackham. He created the visual identity of the acclaimed miniature games Confrontation and RagNarok. Then he decides to go freelance on the US market. Influenced by his love for the gothic-punk vampires depicted by Ann Rice he sent a portfolio to White Wolf (Vampire: the Requiem) and he had a job two days later. In two years now he did illustrations and covers in 15 White Wolf books. JS now works for prestigious clients among which are Ubisoft, Wizard of the Coast, Wizkids, White Wolf, SEAT, EMI and many others.
JS keeps on illustrating Merlin, an ambitious 130 pages artbook about the legendary wizard, with his friend Aleksi. A former musician, Rossbach keeps a love for music artists and regularly creates artworks for bands. He also commited the Graphic Design of the artbook Salvaged: the Art of Jason Felix coming worldwide now! JS Rossbach is 34 years old and lives in Paris (France).
